Wizard's Weekly Wrap-Up: Grief, Grift, Games, Golden Threads & the Wisdom of Gandhi
Iran’s Massacre, Minnesota’s Occupation, Greenland's Last Stand and a World at the Breaking Point: The Week That Was January 11-17, 2026
This week was brutal but revealing, as violence spread across the map. From streets soaked in blood to borders rattled by threat and appetite, the old world showed its hand, not in strength, but in fear. It was a week that tested not just systems, but souls, and in the weight of grief, the deeper intelligence of the heart began to speak.
This week marked 30 days since the Trump regime’s Department of Justice was legally required to release the Epstein files, but so far they’ve coughed up less than 1%. In response, Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie asked a judge to appoint a Special Master to force compliance., but the DOJ filed a motion to block the appointment, arguing that federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act. In other words, the Department of Justice is arguing that justice is optional.
To deflect blame away from Trump, James Comer tried to haul the Clintons in for a closed-door Epstein deposition, but they shut him down with a public letter that called the subpoenas invalid, noted that Comer had subpoenaed eight people in addition to the Clintons and had then dismissed seven of them without testimony, and pointed out that Bill Clinton has publicly called for the full release of the Epstein files - something Trump, notably, has not done. They wrote, “There is no plausible explanation for what you are doing other than partisan politics.”
Demand for the full release of the Epstein files grew even louder as audio recordings attributed to an individual named Sascha Riley began circulating widely on social media, in which they allege that they were abused as a minor within Epstein’s network. The unverified allegations are so graphic they can’t be responsibly repeated here, but what’s in those recordings is deeply disturbing. Powerful names are named, and not just as bystanders. If even a fraction of what they describe is ever proven true, we’re no longer talking about a sex trafficking scandal, but something closer to institutional evil. Maybe that’s why the DOJ is still sitting on 99% of the files; if the truth really does come out, the whole thing burns.
Trump felt the heat of the public’s ire over his administration’s cover-up of the Epstein files this week when he toured a Michigan Ford plant and a worker at the plant shouted “pedophile protector” at him. Trump - ever so presidentially - flipped him off and mouthed “f*ck you” twice - a clear sign that the pressure is getting to him. The worker, T.J. Sabula, got suspended, but told the press he has “definitely no regrets.” Hard same, T.J.
It seems that just about everything that’s happened in America since the Trump regime failed to comply with the law and release the Epstein files is just an effort to change the subject. Trump has staged a military invasion of Venezuela, threatened Mexico and Cuba, sent ICE goons terrorize U.S. streets, and is now trying to nuke the NATO alliance by invading Greenland.
Following a frostier-than-Arctic meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio, VP J.D. Vance, and the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden launched “Operation Arctic Endurance” - basically NATO’s way of saying, “Back off, buddy.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned that invading Greenland would mean “the end of NATO,” and the EU’s Defense Commissioner agreed, but Trump’s response was that “NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES.” Because nothing says “strength” like stealing an island from your allies.
Congress, to its credit, isn’t having it. A delegation of 11 U.S. lawmakers even flew to Denmark this week to pour cold water on the whole thing, assuring them America isn’t actually run by cartoon villains - or at least, not all of it. “Support in Congress to acquire Greenland in any way is not there,” said GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski. Representative Don Bacon cut straight to the chase, saying “Invading an ally is a high crime and a misdemeanor. If Trump tries this, it will end his presidency.”
Bipartisan bills are flying in to block any use of military force or federal funds to attack NATO allies because - and I can’t believe this needs saying - invading Denmark is not a foreign policy strategy. But Trump’s long past strategy. He’s not playing 5D chess, or 3D chess, or even checkers at this stage - he’s just merrily overturning the board and eating all the pieces.
In an act of resistance against the Trump regime this week, Senator Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon, accusing them of political retaliation after he reminded troops they don’t have to follow illegal orders. For the crime of quoting the Constitution, Kelly now faces censure and threats to his rank and pension. He’s arguing First Amendment violation, and he’s not the only one having his rights trampled.
The Trump regime this week raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, violating the freedom of the press as written in the Constitution by seizing her devices in a “classified leak” probe that conveniently threatens to expose hundreds of sources, including federal whistleblowers.
In a further assault on press freedom, Trump issued a direct threat to CBS moments after completing a 13-minute interview Tuesday with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil this week. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt relayed the message on camera: “He said, ‘Make sure you don’t cut the tape - make sure the interview is out in full.’” When Dokoupil replied, “Yeah, we’re doing it,” Leavitt added, “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” That comes as CBS chief Bari Weiss reportedly killed yet another 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump this week, sparking backlash and a now-viral quip from Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser, who quipped that CBS was the best place these days to “see B-S news.”
Trump’s governance style is less president, more Joker-as-Mayor-of-Gotham: commit one lawless act to distract from the last, til eventually nobody can keep up. Threatening the press, invading Venezuela, and making plans to take Greenland were all just appetizers. His most grotesque move yet has been in Minnesota over the last week, where he sent over 3,000 ICE agents to patrol the streets like a federal death squad, resulting in the execution of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE officer last week.
The Trump regime wasted no time smearing Renee and her wife as “domestic terrorists,” refusing to investigate the shooter and instead launching a probe into the couple’s ties to activists. At least six career prosecutors at DOJ’s Civil Rights Division resigned this week in protest. Nationwide protests erupted, but ICE didn’t back down - they doubled down with armed raids, illegal chokeholds, warrantless searches, even stationing agents at Target bathrooms. One teen was dragged from his job. One woman from her car. The suburbs now look like warzones, patrolled by men who think they’re the Avengers but act more like the Gestapo.
Even Joe Rogan - who endorsed Trump during the 2024 election - compared ICE to Nazi secret police this week. That should tell you everything.
In response, communities have formed mutual aid squads to escort kids, protect neighbors, and track agent movement in real time. America isn’t taking this lying down, but the trauma is palpable. States are pushing back. Illinois sued DHS for “unlawful and dangerous tactics.” Minnesota and its biggest cities followed. Attorney General Keith Ellison called the operation a “federal invasion.” Governor Tim Walz urged residents to film ICE agents: not just to bear witness, but to build the prosecutorial record. “Help us create a database of atrocities,” he said.
Trump responded on social media with a veiled threat: “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT.” In other words, resist us and we’ll militarize even harder.
Legal analysts noted that invoking the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as declaring martial law, but the optics are close enough to goose-step. Governor Walz pleaded for calm: “Do not give them the excuse they want. We must speak out, but peacefully. That’s what they’re hoping for - chaos.”
And chaos is exactly what they’re getting. Kristi Noem, apparently moonlighting as the Constitution’s pyromaniac, said agents may now ask anyone nearby for proof of citizenship - a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment. One week after an ICE agent killed an unarmed mother, the federal response is to blame the widow, threaten the state, ignore the Constitution, and then float martial law. Call it what it is: not law enforcement, but regime enforcement.
As if Minnesota and Greenland weren’t enough chaos for one week, Trump swiveled his attention to the U.S. financial system - specifically, the Federal Reserve, where Chair Jerome Powell revealed he’s under federal criminal investigation over alleged budget blowouts for a $2.5 billion renovation project. Critics noted that it was a bit rich for Trump’s DOJ to invent crimes over building renovations when Trump just bulldozed the East Wing without permits or permission. The probe is widely seen as a political hit job, retaliation because Powell didn’t slash interest rates fast enough to suit Trump’s 2026 campaign fantasies.
Powell, appointed by Trump himself, calmly pushed back: the renovations were approved, Congress was informed, and this whole thing is a pretext. He warned that the real issue is whether America still allows interest rates to be set by evidence, or by threats. Trump, meanwhile, is openly trying to replace Powell with a loyalist who’ll hand him the keys to the U.S. economy. The result would be catastrophic - a politicized Fed, an unrestrained presidency, and a banana republic wrapped in red, white, and blue bunting. Even Republican Senator Thom Tillis has had enough, vowing to block any Fed nominee until this “legal matter” is dealt with.
Trump, as usual, couldn’t care less. Asked about Powell, he shrugged off bipartisan objections, lied about the economy being “the strongest in history,” and suggested America maybe shouldn’t have midterm elections at all. Then - because reality is satire now - he posted a portrait of himself titled “Acting President of Venezuela” just as news broke that the U.S. has sold $500 million of Venezuelan oil and is parking the cash offshore in Qatar. Trump claims that he controls that money and is trying to block it from going to oil companies with prior claims.
Senator Elizabeth Warren didn’t mince words: “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account he controls to sell assets seized by the U.S. military. That is precisely the move of a corrupt politician.” But then, taking what doesn’t belong to him is kind of Trump’s whole brand. He wants the Fed. He wants the oil. He wants the power to rewrite law and the freedom to ignore it. He wants Greenland. Hell, this week he even took someone else’s Nobel Peace Prize - literally.
At a White House visit, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed Trump the actual medal she received from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2025. Trump, grinning like a kid who found a cookie jar with no lid, held it up proudly and said, “She told me nobody in history deserves it more than I do.” Only problem is that you can’t transfer a Nobel. The title itself is non-transferable, so Trump is not, and never will be, a Nobel laureate. But that didn’t stop him from soaking up the moment, giving Machado a Trump swag bag in return, and posing for photos like he’d just won it fair and square. Snatching someone else’s peace prize whilst trying to provoke both a world war and civil war at the same time is not irony - it is a diagnosis. It is the logic of the moment laid bare.
At a separate ceremony, the Florida Panthers hockey team showed up at the White House - all wearing Trump’s uniform: navy suits, red ties - and presented him with a jersey bearing his name and the number 47, two championship rings, and a golden hockey stick. Trump grinned at the podium: “Ooh, that looks nice. I hope it’s the stick and not just the shirt. Maybe I get both, who the hell knows. I’m president, I’ll just take ’em.” The doctrine of the Trump regime, in his own words: “I’ll just take ’em.”
While Trump is busy waving a Nobel medal he didn’t earn and posing with a golden hockey stick, the rest of the world is quietly moving on. This week, Canada’s Prime Minister - Mark Carney, a grown-up - signed a trillion-dollar trade and investment deal with China, and just like that, the global picture snapped into focus. While other nations are building supply chains and future-proofing growth, the U.S. under Trump is yelling at the past like it owes him rent. The economic doctrine of a man who thinks punishing your neighbor is how you feed your family.
Capital is leaving, allies are hedging, trade partners are diversifying and the world - without announcing it - is choosing not to bet the house on a country that keeps setting fire to the casino. While other countries are locking in long-term prosperity with pen and paper, Trump’s America is pounding the table with a ketchup-stained menu, demanding the special of 1954. What once felt like a safe default now reads like a volatility index in a red tie
Even FIFA called an emergency meeting after reports that nearly 17,000 fans abandoned their 2026 World Cup ticket plans amid growing global protest and safety concerns linked to the U.S. political climate. Piling on, the Australian ambassador to the U.S. resigned after calling Trump “the village idiot.”
Speaking of Australia, the cultural backlash to the Bondi Beach massacre hit boiling point this week after the Adelaide Writers’ Festival board uninvited Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah - claiming her presence would be “insensitive” so soon after the attacks - festival director Louise Adler resigned, refusing to take part in “silencing writers,” swiftly followed by 180 authors, including former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, whose mass withdrawal collapsed the entire event. Writers’ Week was cancelled, the board resigned, and the debacle now unfolds against the backdrop of a federal push to pass sweeping new hate-speech laws.
After the Bondi terror attack, the Albanese government rushed through a high-profile package of gun-control and hate-speech reforms. Conservatives who had been loudly calling for urgent protections against antisemitic rhetoric targeting Australian Jews are now sounding the alarm, because the reforms have been expanded to include other racial groups, including the Sikh community, as well as protections for people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ Australians. Suddenly, the same voices that were demanding swift action are warning of government overreach and threats to free speech. Turns out, some free speech warriors only like protections when they’re the ones being protected. Protections for me, but not for thee.
The most disturbing news of the week came out of the Middle East, where a massacre is unfolding in Iran. Over the past week, thousands of protesters were slaughtered by Iranian security forces in what human rights groups are calling one of the deadliest crackdowns in the country’s modern history. 12,000 people are feared to have been killed - peaceful demonstrators shot en masse, teenagers, women, entire crowds, with horrifying footage emerging of bodies stacked in morgues and left in the streets.
The violence began escalating sharply after nationwide protests, in response to which the regime imposed a total internet and telecommunications blackout, effectively severing the country from the outside world, and using that silence to bury its dead, while some survivors await execution. This is a state-led massacre in real time, with echoes of Tiananmen and Rwanda, and in any normal situation, the world would expect America to step in, but it’s a little busy right now navigating it’s own collapse under its own authoritarian leader.
Reading the news, you’d be right to think the world is ending, because in many ways, it is. The old world built on fear, domination, extraction, and control - the one that sold its soul for power and now can’t remember where it buried the receipt - is loudly falling apart. It’s flickering out with a bureaucratic wail, and as that world dissolves, another begins to rise - one not built on threats or markets or militaries, but something more ancient: coherence, integrity and the frequency of the heart.
While headlines scream collapse, the sky says something else entirely. This month, the stars make a rare formation - an unprecedented Mars activation - that flings open the first of four cosmic gateways humanity must pass through this year. Not polite little energy shifts, but threshold transits, where systems will rupture, masks will fall and power will be tested at the root level.
The spell that held the world together is breaking, and if you listen closely beneath the chaos, you can already hear what’s coming next. We’re stepping into Aquarius season now - a threshold month that asks not what power can take, but what we continue to give our consent to. In moments like this, force is loud, but the quiet power of refusing to cooperate with injustice begins to matter more than any show of strength. It is here, in this exact kind of moment, that the wisdom of Gandhi calls to us - not as nostalgia or idealism, but as a disciplined, living response to a world losing its mind.
So if you're asking what’s really moving beneath the noise - what this moment means, what it’s asking of us, what Gandhi has to say about it, and what to do if you feel like you’re losing your mind - then keep reading.
Let’s make meaning of the madness,
Trace the architecture beneath the chaos,
And walk forward with eyes open,
Tuned to the clarity blooming beneath collapse.
**The cosmic insights shared here are mapped to the real movements of the heavens during the past week. If you want to know more about planetary pattern recognition, read about it here**
A Tale of Two Cities
This week told a tale of two nations. Two regimes in two different places; two streets both soaked in fear.
In one, a theocratic government deployed its Revolutionary Guard to crush dissent, shooting protesters in broad daylight, while internet blackouts hid the blood, mothers buried their sons and the world declared a human rights crisis.
In the other, federal agents in unmarked vans, wearing masks and carrying guns, roamed suburban neighborhoods, dragging civilians from their cars, terrorising them in their workplaces, their homes, even their churches as part of a federally funded assault.
Two different countries - one a brutal authoritarian regime, the other a beacon of democracy, apparently - but if you strip the flags, silence the anthems, and just watch the footage, you’ll see civilians being rounded up, protests crushed by force, and a leader who treats dissent like treason. Grief and fear sound the same whether it’s in Iran or Donald Trump’s America. Two nations, once polar opposites, now both treading the path of pain.
Inexplicably, while Trump tramples democracy at home and ignores international law by invading Venezuela, kidnapping its leader, commandeering its oil, threatening to invade Greenland, and blow up the NATO alliance, he somehow sees fit to be the one to threaten Iran if they dare harm their people.
“If Iran… violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom,” he recently declared, “the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
“Help is on the way,” Trump told the Iranian people this week, offering no such comfort to his own citizens, whose necks he is trying to pin beneath his swollen boot. No sign yet that he intends to offer similar rescue to the people of Minnesota, where his ICE agents are terrorizing the streets. After Renee Good was shot dead in her car, another man this week was permanently blinded in one eye during an altercation with federal agents, and a woman was pulled from her vehicle and brutalized, apparently for the crime of trying to make it to her doctors appointment. The streets of Minnesota are occupied with a federalised force the likes of which have not been seen in America for hundreds of years.
It’s almost impossible to make sense of it. Reality, it appears, is tearing at the seams, while our minds strain to make sense of the madness.
Puppetry of the President
It not just our minds that are under strain right now. Donald Trump’s appears to be failing too, and fast.
While Trump positions himself as both the world’s enforcer and occasional pirate - plundering countries, pillaging democracies, and snatching other people’s peace prizes - a former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, this week called for the president to undergo a medical evaluation after he once again appeared to nod off during a public Oval Office event, his eyes closing repeatedly as he signed legislation. Reiner called the behavior “not normal” and said the president “needs to be evaluated.”
Other specialists have speculated that Trump’s posture, gait, and episodes of drowsiness could indicate a stroke or a degenerative neurological condition. The White House insists he’s in “excellent overall health,” brushing off concerns as partisan noise, even as videos emerge of Trump slurring and slurping through speeches that critics noted was reminiscent of a patient with congestive heart failure losing the ability to swallow.
Trump flipping off a protester and mouthing “f*ck you” to someone who called him a “pedophile protector” this week is the kind of impulsivity and inability to restrain crude outbursts that doctors associate with late-stage dementia. As the brain’s executive functions deteriorate, what’s left is the raw impulse, the limbic system unfiltered, and a man governed by nothing but appetite and grievance.
Astrologically, Trump’s chart over the next month is a symphony of decline. His mind is boxed in by three tight squares involving Mercury: one to his Moon (emotional instability), one to Uranus (mental misfires and erratic speech), and one to his own Sun (ego-fracture, incoherence). His Mars, the planet of willpower, is squared almost exactly by Uranus, a signature of volatile energy and potential physical instability - think sudden outbursts, neurological tremors, loss of motor control. Chiron, the wounded healer, is squaring his Saturn to the minute, a karmic red flag showing the collapse of authority and the withering of executive function. Uranus is also squaring his Ascendant, distorting how he presents physically to the world - this is the “something looks off” transit.
Put together, the sky reads like a medical chart: cognitive confusion, physical unpredictability, emotional dysregulation, and the decaying architecture of power. And yet, Trump still holds the nuclear codes.
There’s no serious talk of the 25th Amendment, and why would there be? The sycophants surrounding him don’t need a healthy president - they just need a puppet with a pulse. At a recent televised meeting, after Trump wandered off-script, Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed him a note meant to steer him back, but Trump picked it up and simply read it out loud, verbatim, creating an eerie symobl of the state of things: hand him a piece of paper, and he’ll say whatever’s on it, as long as it gets him attention and diverts it away from Epstein, keeps him in power or maybe makes him a buck or two.
It’s like a scene from Weekend at Bernie’s.
Like Wormtongue whispering in the ear of the King.
The president is clearly not well, and neither is the country - both going out of their mind, and buckling under the weight of his presidency.
A Nation Shot Down
While Trump’s unhinged plan seems clear - terrorize Americans, attack them, shoot them in the face, and create as much chaos as possible, then use the chaos he manufactured to invoke the Insurrection Act so he can disrupt the midterm elections and avoid being impeached - it’s not at all clear why so many Americans are carrying out his bidding.
We’re used to watching spineless Republican leaders cave to Trump’s demands, but what’s new in his second term is the sight of hordes of masked men with guns roaming American streets, terrorising citizens at random in the name of “immigration enforcement.”
They abandon basic protocol to rip people from their cars, chase civilians through neighbourhoods, and escalate rather than de-escalate - seemingly eager to fire a weapon where none is required. One has to ask who exactly these men are, and what has gone so wrong in their minds that they appear to feel no shame in their violent actions. The same question applies to Trump’s MAGA base, who cheer them on even when they shoot a clearly innocent woman point-blank in the face.
One possible answer lies not in ideology alone, but in the act of shooting itself.
There is a growing body of research suggesting that repeated exposure to gunfire can cause significant neurological damage. The blast wave from firing a modern rifle sends concussive shock through the body and into the brain, even without visible injury - similar to the trauma seen in contact sports. Over time, repeated exposure can impair impulse control, heighten aggression, blunt empathy, and distort emotional regulation. This doesn’t excuse violent behavior, but it does help explain how someone can move from being a “normal neighbour” to reacting with extreme, disproportionate force where restraint is required.
In the case of the ICE agent who killed Renee Good - who reportedly hid his profession from neighbours and told them he was a botanist - the disconnect is telling. The gap between who he was in his community and who he became in uniform points to a deeper fracture: a person who knew enough to conceal his role, yet continued to inhabit a system that rewards escalation, dominance, and fear over judgment and humanity. Shame was present, just not enough to stop him.
Which raises a larger, more disturbing question. Could a nation obsessed with guns - a country with more firearms than people - be literally damaging its own mind with every shot fired?
The old saying goes that you cannot harm another without harming yourself, but in America, that idea may now be playing out in a way that is scientifically measurable. Every round fired carries a cost not just to the target, but to the shooter. Many ICE agents are former military or law-enforcement - people who have fired weapons for a living, often thousands of times. If repeated exposure to gunfire causes cumulative brain injury, then we are entrusting lethal force to people whose neurological capacity for restraint may already be compromised. Those who regularly fire guns may be the least suited to actually wielding one.
That the rise in lack of civility, violence and use of force in America may correlate directly to the repeated use of guns should horrify us more than any slogan or conspiracy ever could. A society that has normalized gun violence may not just be brutalizing its victims, but also steadily eroding the minds of those it arms, until decency itself becomes collateral damage.
The image of eroding minds presents us with a stark analogy for this moment, as the year ahead walks humanity through a series of gates designed to drive us quite literally out of our minds and anchor us in our hearts. For thousands of years, we’ve been living in our heads with little connection to the soul, perceiving reality only through the mind, bypassing the heart entirely. But the signal our mind has been tuned to is flickering out right now - it’s moving to a new bandwidth only perceivably by the heart.
It may feel like our minds are eroding, because the frequency it knows certainly is. But what’s rising beneath the rubble is something far deeper and wiser - the frequency of the truth, and the frequency of the heart.
The First Gate Has Opened
The surge of violence now sweeping through America and Iran is not random. We are living through the ignition sequence of 2026 - the first cosmic gate of a year that resets the signal, guiding us from the mind into the heart.
To get the full picture of the year ahead, you can read about it below:
Over the coming weeks, between January 20 and 27, the first cosmic gate opens as Mars - the planet of force, conflict, and karmic consequence - rams straight through Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto in rapid-fire succession. These are the outer planets, the ones that govern systems, structure, illusion, power. When Mars moves, it doesn’t ask permission. It tests the integrity of everything it touches.
If the structure isn’t real, it cracks.
If the power isn’t earned, it buckles.
If the narrative is hollow, it collapses on contact.
This kind of sequence is almost mythic in rarity, and when it shows up, history breaks open. This moment is a pressure test, cracking the illusion that the current world order still holds. Trump’s militarised ICE surge, his foreign threats, Iran’s brutal crackdown - they are not outliers, but the sound of brittle systems hitting their karmic limit.
This moment will be the measure of whether current leaders, systems, and structures can withstand the weight of the rising heart-led reality, and if they can hold the new heart signal, without wielding the weapon of fear.
Fear is not a property of the heart. It is a construct of the mind, born from projection, memory, and imagined futures, and when leaders govern through fear, they are governing from the mind alone. The heart, anchored in the present, cannot be coerced in the same way, which is why regimes that rely on fear are failing so violently as the heart frequency rises.
In Iran and in America, in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Congo - the list goes on - what we’re witnessing is not just violence, but the exposure of unfitness. Systems and leaders who can only respond with fear, force, and domination are not passing through this gate - they are burning themselves against it. The louder the violence, the clearer the failure.
The First Gate - The Mars Pressure Test - doesn’t destroy regimes. It reveals which ones are not anchored enough to survive without fear, and which ones will fall as that frequency fades out. This is not the end of power, but the end of power that requires fear to function.
Out Of Our Minds, Into Our Hearts
So much of what we’re seeing unfold right now in our world seems unbelievable. It feels like the world is glitching. Like reality can’t hold its own story straight anymore. And that’s because it can’t, at least not in our minds. Reality is becoming impossible to mentally metabolise, as the details playing out exceed what our human minds believe reality is allowed to contain.
If you feel like you’re going out of your mind, good - that’s what this moment is designed to do. Reality is not broadcasting on the bandwidth of the mind liked it used to, and if you try to tune in that way all you’ll get is pain, not because you’re broken, but because the signal is moving. To walk forward with peace, we must tune with a different apparatus - only the heart can hold what’s coming next.
Once we pass through this first gate of 2026 - the Pressure Test - we will quickly approach the second on February 20, when Saturn and Neptune meet at zero degrees Aries - the Genesis Reset. Zero degrees of the first sign of the zodiac is the raw point of origin. Before language. Before ideology. Before story.
Aries says existence begins here.
Saturn says make it real.
Neptune says the old illusion is dissolving.
Put them together and you get a world that no longer makes sense using the old mental map. This is the moment the broadcast shifts for good, from the frequency of the mind to the frequency of the heart.
February 20 marks the moment the broadcast changes permanently. From that point on, reality will no longer resolve through the mind alone, and those still trying to tune that way will experience increasing confusion, fear, and incoherence. Reality won’t disappear, but our mental access to it will - it will stop making sense to a mind that hasn’t learned to listen through the heart, the only instrument fit to register what’s real in the new world rising beneath our feet.
For thousands of years, we tuned to reality through the mind, investing in narratives, laws, hierarchies, beliefs - all the scaffolding that told us this is how things work - but now that frequency is collapsing, and not gently. It’s glitching, and contradicting itself - short-circuiting in real time - and that’s why institutions that provided grounding and reason for all our lifetimes suddenly sound insane, because the operating system they run on no longer matches the signal coming in.
This is a reset not just in systems, but in how we perceive what’s real. What we used to tune into with our minds we must now learn to tune into with our hearts. Not sentimentally, but somatically, and instinctually, with direct knowing, born from the part of us that is eternal and all-knowing.
As the old signal collapses, our minds are left with increasingly little to latch onto, and for those of us who are anchored in our mind with limited access to our heart, this moment feels brutal, frightening, and utterly destabilising.
But what’s happening right now isn’t chaos, as much as it’s a frequency mismatch. We’re using the wrong device to tune to a dying frequency. As mental reality collapses louder each day, we’re being called inward, into the only part of us that can properly receive the new signal that’s broadcasting.
Gandhi’s Aquarian Gateway Guidance
As the old world makes less and less sense, as violence erupts and sovereignty is threatened, it can be hard to know exactly how to respond. Most of us in the Western world aren’t used to this level of brinkmanship, disruption, and chaos. War is something that happens in far-flung places, not in the streets outside our homes.
If we rely only on the mind to navigate this moment, we’ll likely react from fear and self-protection because the mind, knowing its own impermanence, always seeks safety. But that instinct can turn reactive - lashing out, escalating, meeting force with force - even in people who are peaceful at heart. That’s why this moment ask us to reach for something deeper: the eternal part of us that knows no fear, because it knows it cannot be harmed.
The heart is the compass we must use if we are to pass this gateway. In a world long led by the mind, it is challenging to find examples of leaders who led from the heart that we can turn to for guidance in this time. So much of our modern notion of governing and ruling hinges on domination, protection and control, all which are built on fear (the mind) not love (the heart). This is the same terrain we enter each year as the Sun moves into Aquarius (as it will do next week) - not the terrain of force or domination, but of withdrawal, and the quiet power of refusing to co-operate with injustice.
But modern history provides us with one bastion of heart-led hope as guide for this moment in the form of Mahatma Gandhi, of whom Albert Einstein once said that “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth,” such was the impact of this great man, said to speak for the consciousness of all mankind.
In 1982, Sir Richard Attenborough made a film about Gandhi’s life starring Ben Kingsley in an Oscar winning performance as the man himself, and the film still holds up now, 80 years after Gandhi’s death. Many of the iconic lines in the film have become so synonymous with Gandhi himself that, whether he uttered them as written in life or not, the spirit of the words captured the miracle of the man so perfectly that they warrant repeating below.
At the turn of the 20th century, Gandhi’s homeland of India was governed by Britain, as it had been for nearly two hundred years - a vast, ancient civilisation of hundreds of millions of Indians ruled through a thin layer of colonial officials. British authority rested on a carefully cultivated belief that order would collapse without imperial control, but in reality, the empire functioned like a siphon. Wealth flowed out; obedience flowed down. The entire system ran on Indian labour, Indian compliance, Indian belief, not unlike modern America, where working-class citizens keep the country afloat while the wealth flows upward to Trump and his billionaire backers.
Gandhi’s response to this arrangement began with a simple observation. “One hundred thousand Englishmen cannot control three hundred and fifty million Indians if those Indians refuse to comply,” he noted.
Gandhi began breaking unjust laws publicly, peacefully, and with complete willingness to be arrested. He refused to resist authority, but he also refused to obey it, and the British didn’t know what to do with a man who courted imprisonment without defiance or fear. His acts of non-compliance soon caught fire and became a national movement.
Eventually, Britain pushed back by passing the Rowlatt Act in 1919, allowing detention without trial. Protests erupted across India, and the response was catastrophic. At Jallianwala Bagh, British troops fired into an unarmed crowd, killing hundreds of men, women and children, and the massacre shattered any remaining illusion of benevolent rule, as the nation erupted in fury toward its colonial masters.
But even if the face of horrific violence, Gandhi pleaded with his people not to answer brutality with retribution. “We must respond not with violence that will enflame their will, but with a firmness that will open their eyes,” he implored. He knew violence would give the empire exactly what it wanted - justification. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind,” he warned. Firmness, not fury, was the path forward - a resistance disciplined enough to expose injustice rather than enflame it.
Gandhi called on Indians to peacefully withdraw from the empire entirely - boycott British goods, leave colonial jobs, and withdraw from British schools and courts. He believed if people stopped buying what the empire sold, stopped working where it profited, and stopped obeying laws that violated conscience, the system would collapse under its own weight. No dramatic overthrow was required - only mass withdrawal. Millions responded, and the empire began to grind down, not from attack, but from absence.
Gandhi risked his safety and his freedom again and again through his acts of non-compliance, telling his followers, “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”
“In this cause I am prepared to die,” he declared, “but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Whatever they do to us, we will attack no-one, kill no-one. They will imprison us. They will fine us. They will seize our possessions. But they cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
Resistance, as Gandhi understood it, was its own form of fighting - not against flesh and blood, but against anger, fear, and moral collapse. “I am asking you to fight against their anger - not to provoke it. We will not strike a blow, but we will receive them,” he said, “and through our pain we will make them see their injustice.”
The true turning point came when the British taxed salt - a basic necessity of daily life. Gandhi did not write a manifesto or call for revolt. He simply started walking, two hundred and forty miles, all the way to the sea. And there, he made salt himself. The act was simple, symbolic, and technically illegal, but almost impossible to suppress without revealing the cruelty of the law itself. “Make the injustice visible and be prepared to die like a soldier doing so,” Gandhi said.
The response was predictable - arrests, beatings and imprisonment - but the damage was done. Millions followed him to the sea and the law collapsed. British authority cracked, not through violence, but through disciplined refusal.
What Gandhi demonstrated in that moment was something far more dangerous to power than revolt: the peaceful withdrawal of consent. He showed that empires do not fall when they are attacked, but when they are no longer participated in.
As we approach the start of Aquarius season next week, the collective focus shifts toward this same terrain - away from confrontation and toward withdrawal, away from overthrow and toward refusal. Aquarius doesn’t storm palaces; it starves them. Gandhi didn’t defeat an empire by fighting it. He rendered it obsolete by stepping out of alignment with it. He didn’t try to outwit the empire of the mind - he withdrew into the heart, and in doing so outplayed it.
That is the rising heart frequency finding its Aquarian expression now, not as confrontation, but as collective refusal. Aquarius season is not the destination; it is the clearing that teaches us how to step out of alignment with systems that no longer deserve our participation, and it leads us straight to the next threshold: the Genesis Reset when Saturn and Neptune converge in Aries.
Once the old world is starved of consent, something new must be born. Aries doesn’t debate what comes next - it begins it. Saturn gives it form. Neptune gives it soul.
Aquarius asks us to withdraw.
Aries will ask us to create.
That is the path we are walking now.
Opposing, Not Becoming
Gandhi speaks to this moment not by asking us to be gentle, quiet, or agreeable, but by reminding us to go beneath the reflexes of the mind to the place where power actually lives and wisdom truly resides. He did not fight the British Empire on the battlefield of ideology, outrage, or dominance - he refused to meet it there at all.
Authoritarian systems operate almost entirely through the mind, trafficking in fear, narrative, and reaction because these are the tools that keep people mentally engaged and emotionally volatile. Violence serves this purpose perfectly: it justifies escalation, allows repression to masquerade as order, and keeps resistance trapped in the same mental arena as the oppressor. Gandhi understood with terrifying clarity that the moment resistance becomes reactive, the regime has already won.
What Gandhi offered instead was not passivity, but a radical shift of operating system. While empires govern through the mind, he led through the heart. He withdrew consent at the level where fear cannot reach, and in doing so, denied power its oxygen.
When a government begins abducting civilians in unmarked vans, shooting people in the streets, suspending due process, and calling it “order,” the mind’s impulse is to meet force with force, to escalate, to rage, to fracture. Gandhi’s lesson is sharper than strategy: do not give a collapsing system the mental engagement it needs to justify itself. Do not meet it in the mind. Step beneath it, into the heart, and withdraw cooperation from there.
Do not amplify its lies.
Do not normalise its language.
Do not internalise its fear.
Do not obey directives that violate conscience.
Do not offer moral cover to violence masquerading as governance.
These are not moral gestures - they are acts of heart-based clarity.
This does not mean inaction. It means heart-led action: collective non-compliance rooted not in chaos, but in coherence. Gandhi walked willingly into prisons because he understood that when injustice is made unmistakably visible and met with calm, unwavering refusal, the mind of the system collapses under the weight of its own contradiction.
In America today, the test is not whether people are angry enough - anger is abundant. The test is whether we can remain anchored in the heart while refusing to cooperate with brutality, whether we can oppose without becoming, and deny an unraveling regime the emotional volatility it feeds on.
Gandhi did not defeat the British Empire by matching its brutality with his own. He rendered it obsolete - exposing it as morally hollow, logistically unsustainable, and spiritually bankrupt. He did not overthrow it - he transcended it.
And that is the invitation of this moment: not to burn the world down in rage, but to step out of alignment with systems that have already collapsed inwardly, and to do so with enough coherence, courage, and collective resolve that their violence is revealed for what it is - the last reflex of a power that no longer knows how to rule.
Pain is a Pathway
Our minds are trained to avoid pain at all costs, so when everything in the outer world begins to collapse our reflex is to flinch, escape, deny, or fight. The mind, after all, likes things tidy. It craves control, routine, and predictability, but the destabilisation of this moment disrupts all of that, throwing the mind into panic mode, grasping for logic, spinning narratives, doing anything it can to avoid the raw ache of what’s breaking.
But to the heart, pain is not the enemy.
Pain is an initiator.
An activator.
A crossroads.
When pain arrives, we’re given a choice. We can either retreat into the mind - into strategy, defensiveness, and detachment - or we can let the pain split us open and drop us down into the truth of our being, into the place where the heart has been waiting, quietly, for permission to lead. That’s the moment we reclaim our power - not by avoiding the pain, but by walking straight through it and letting it rearrange us into someone truer, deeper, and more whole.
This moment we’re living through is too big for the mind to make sense of. The signal that the old world has long operated on - the one the mind knows how to decode - is flickering out. The mind won’t understand this era, but the heart will know exactly what to do.
The path to the heart is paved with pain. It jolts the mind out of autopilot, like a spiritual defibrillator, shocking the system so the soul can finally rise. This chaos isn’t punishment - it’s an awakening. An invitation to switch operating systems, to stop letting the mind run the show, and to start letting the heart steer. From the place of the mind, you can perceive the deeper layer. It doesn’t delete the surface chaos, but it makes sense of it, allowing you to perceive it with clarity.
As I was writing these words, a message came through from Anna, an Inner Circle subscriber who lives in Minnesota. I want to share Anna’s words with you (with permission), because they sum up what’s happening on the ground at the level of the heart more perfectly than I could.
“Things have been changing,” Anna wrote. “The frequency is different. It feels like….we are being asked to think with our hearts, connect and speak with our hearts instead of communicating with brain words and old patterns. It’s definitely an inward softer, more emotional way to perceive the world versus what I feel is sharp edges, thoughts, and unconscious patterns.”
“Minneapolis is waking up,” Anna wrote. “Before the big event happened, I could feel the rage in the heaviness on the freeways and in the interactions. Now, everybody is talking with each other, checking in on each other, taking care of neighbors helping kids stay safe. Food pantries are being set up at schools so parents can safely provide for their children. Money is being funnelled to grocers that provide for these families. This is a remarkable shift into higher frequency and it is exciting and it helps me to navigate the horrifying events on the ground.”
The pain is the pathway that leads to the heart, not because suffering is noble, but because pain strips the mind of its illusions. It exhausts our strategies, burns through our defenses, and leaves us with nothing left to cling to except what is real. When the mind can no longer explain, justify, or control what’s happening, the heart steps forward - not as comfort, but as clarity.
What Anna is describing is the mechanism of this moment. When fear and violence tear through the surface world, the mind fractures under the weight of it. But beneath that fracture, something else comes online: connection, care, mutual recognition, instinctive solidarity. People stop thinking about one another and start feeling with one another, and that is how the heart reorganises reality.
Pain does not pull us backward, but inward. It forces the shift from head to heart, from reaction to coherence, from fragmentation to belonging. And when enough people make that shift - not as an idea, but as a lived frequency - a different kind of order begins to emerge, quietly, right in the middle of the wreckage.
Through unimaginable suffering comes unimaginable coherence - not someday, not abstractly, but here, now, wherever the heart is allowed to lead.
The Golden Threads of Light
It’s hard to sit by and watch a world writhe in pain. Seeing footage of brutality on American streets, and the absolute horror of the massacres in Iran, can feel like it breaks the heart. But that sensation is not the heart breaking - it’s the heart opening. And we are meant to let it.
We are not meant to make ourselves comfortable in the face of atrocity. We are meant to allow the fullness of what we feel to settle in the centre of our being, not as overwhelm, but as activation. When those feelings are processed through the mind, they become agitation and urgency. When they are received through the heart, they become coherence - and coherence is power.
When we deposit the pain of the world into the mind, the mind immediately demands action. “I must do something.” Perhaps the pain is local and there is something you can do - help a neighbour, show up, speak out - but what can we do to make a difference when we are an ocean away? How do we stop a massacre in Iran? How do we help those being terrorised in Minnesota? We take to social media, we log our feelings and our outrage, but is there something more we can do beyond just expressing our dissent, especially if we are a world a way from where the injustice is occurring?
The heart understands that not all action is visible, and not all power is local. Some of the most consequential actions in a heart-governed world do not look like movement at all. They look like presence. Like attunement. Like love transmitted without agenda.
Each of us is connected by golden threads of light, running from heart to heart. These threads are not metaphor. They are the relational field through which humans regulate one another - the invisible infrastructure of trust, empathy, and shared humanity that connect us soul to soul. For a long time, that field has been dormant, overridden by fear and noise, but now amidst this rising frequency, it is coming back online.
When despair rises, when another soul bleeds across the world, sending love down these threads is not passive. It is stabilising. It quiets panic. It restores dignity. It reminds people - often without words - that they are not alone. Love is not a bonus feature of awakening. Love is the organising intelligence of life itself. When you feel like there is nothing you can do, this is something you can do. Light up the golden threads with your love, and send it directly where you wish for it to go. This is not a replacement for physical action - it is complementary to it, and it is the form of action available when no other avenue is open.
This is why, even in the midst of horror, we are witnessing spontaneous care emerge: neighbours checking on neighbours, communities feeding children, people protecting one another without instruction. This is coherence in motion. This is the heart coordinating reality where the mind has failed.
A new species of human is emerging now - one that leads not with dominance or intellect alone, but with resonance, attunement, and courage. This is not weakness. It is evolution. It is the return of soul intelligence in a world that forgot how to feel.
When the world feels loud and terrifying, don’t reach outward in panic. Drop inward into coherence. You don’t have to scream every day to prove you care. You don’t have to stay outraged to stay awake. Place a hand on your heart. Feel it beat. That rhythm is the signal of the new world, and it’s already inside you.
We are not lost.
We are remembering.
We are not doomed.
We are standing at the threshold of what comes next.
Dropping Into the Heart Space
If dropping into your heart feels unfamiliar - if fear, worry, or overthinking have you trapped in the mind - then the invitation of this moment is to slow down. To seek the stillness beneath the static. Let your soul rise to the surface and begin to re-learn its own language, as the heart frequency of this new world comes online.
The soul doesn’t speak in sentences. It speaks in feeling, in resonance and in frequency, and we don’t reach it by thinking harder, scrolling longer, or trying to outsmart the chaos. There’s no spell to cast and no book that will pry the heart open. The doorway only appears when the mind releases its grip.
One of the simplest ways to begin is to return to the Earth. Nature recalibrates us. Just one barefoot minute on the grass in your backyard can re-sync your nervous system. If you can go deeper, then sit under a tree, walk by a stream, listen to birdsong and you’ll feel it even more. The stones have memory. The water remembers. The trees are transmuters of grief and keepers of quiet wisdom. They’ve been waiting to help. Let nature hold what your mind can’t carry. It will absorb, cleanse, and replenish you, like a living dialysis machine for the soul.
You can also begin by simply breathing. Slow, conscious breaths with your eyes closed can change your frequency. Let each breath soften the body. Let the mind settle. Let the heart rise. This is how the soul comes forward - not with noise, but with stillness.
Because the soul speaks the language of frequency, sound and music are also excellent paths inward. That’s why I’m so grateful to share the words from my Daily Lighthouse posts with The Resonance Room each day, where they are carefully set to music. The words engage the mind, the music reaches the heart, and when both are activated together, something begins to illuminate from within.
If you’re moving through this moment without any regular practice that tends to your heart and soul, the months and years ahead are likely to feel unnecessarily heavy. We’re being asked now to live from a deeper center - to move through the world anchored in the soul, not just the intellect - so that our presence itself becomes a source of light.
If you’re looking for a way to drop into the heart-space, try listening to the short ten-minute sound activation from The Resonance Room below, and simply notice what happens as you listen. Pay attention to how your body responds. Notice what feelings arise, what images drift through your awareness, what softens or opens. This isn’t magic. It’s coherence - the natural result of bringing the full intelligence of the human being back online, heart and mind together.
If you resonate with the offering, each morning a new sound activation can land in your inbox - let that be how you start your day. Just ten minutes as you lie in bed, anchoring yourself in the frequency of the soul before you launch into the world. This is how we move forward with activated hearts.
What happens next will not be decided by how loud this moment becomes, but by how we meet it.
The weeks ahead will test restraint more than rage, clarity more than certainty, and integrity more than ideology. There will be no shortage of provocation - no lack of reasons to panic, react, or harden - but none of that is required. What is required is steadiness, presence and the willingness to remain in our hearts as the world loses its mind.
You are not being asked to save the world, but to stay awake inside it. To act where you can, to refuse where you must, and to remain anchored in the part of you that cannot be coerced, hurried, or corrupted. As empires rise and fall, what endures is the quiet courage of those who do not surrender their conscience when the pressure mounts, and who stay open in their hearts while the world falls apart.
Walk gently.
Stand firmly.
Keep your heart online.
This is not the end of the road - it is a narrowing, and those who pass through it with open hearts are the ones who will help shape what comes next.
See you next Sunday, friends. Until then, have COURAGE, and stay kind, stay fierce, and stay human.
This quote from your wrap-up was so spot on - “But even if the face of horrific violence, Gandhi pleaded with his people not to answer brutality with retribution. “We must respond not with violence that will enflame their will, but with a firmness that will open their eyes,” he implored. He knew violence would give the empire exactly what it wanted - justification. “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind,” he warned. Firmness, not fury, was the path forward - a resistance disciplined enough to expose injustice rather than enflame it.”
Yesterday, in downtown Minneapolis, the right wing agitator and pardoned J6 activist, who coincidentally, had very few people show up for his rally at City Hall, was pelted with water balloons & surrounded by many counter protesters - some who may have gotten in a few punches. He was underdressed for the - degree weather, and as the crowd surged, some non-white men surrounded him, and got him down the block into a car and back to the safety of his hotel. It couldn’t be more perfect. That’s the heart of it. The people he spread hate about, were those who rescued him.
Thank you for this phenomenal weekly wrap up. I feel as though I have found my community, even though we all may be oceans apart.
My work these days is to mulch the anger and fear, and send peace and stability through the mycelium. When I connected to the image of the golden cord, I could feel a happiness and sweetness that made me smile. I do believe the energies have shifted. I feel calmer and more focused than I did last week despite the chaos in Minnesota where I live. These are amazing times!
The ability to connect us with our hearts in this time of transition has helped me to keep the light connecting us all in frequency ♥️. A bit of humor helps too,( pounding on a ketchup stained menu).
At tai chi chih class yesterday, I held up printouts of the illustrations you posted of people carrying lanterns lit inside with hearts and the one of the people holding hearts as balloons in front of the White House. One student had said a few weeks ago in class how much she hated the people in government for their cruelty. The foundation of tai chi chih is oneness of the chi throughout our bodies to the universal vital force of life. She said she was leaving class early to go to a protest. I explained why we’re coming together in class. We are not only here to cultivate the energy within us but to open our hearts to the energy we are cultivating universally. This student who always struggles with the movements, flowed more smoothly and left class with a calm resolve I had not witnessed before. I told her she earned “most improved student” for the day and she slightly teared up. I’ve never said this to a student because everyone is accepted at whatever level they are at. It seemed to be something that needed acknowledgment.
Thanks Wiz for helping me navigate this challenging time. I went to class with a bit of a heavy heart. Sharing the message of the power of the heart was the thread that connected us all, even one that could only feel hate. You are a precious amplifier of heart energy.♥️